[Feature Article] 7 Things You Should Never Do While Mi… - Live Sound Mixing
Top 7 tips to learn and live by when you are behind the mixing console at a live show.
[Feature Article] Celemony Melodyne Editor Review - Melodyne Blew Me Away
Ever since the creation of the first DAW, no other software has caused so much ink to be spilled and generated such expectations. The Direct Note Access technology, which was introduced by Celemony a…
[Feature Article] Exclusive Interview Reveals Productio… - Infected Mushroom Sound Alchemy
Innovators, geek tricksters, obsessive-perfectionists, un-serious, electronic-rock geniuses? Time will tell, yet The Legend of the Black Shawarma, Infected Mushroom’s 7th album release will certainly…
[Feature Article] EQ and Compression Techniques Pt.2: D… - EQ and Compression Techniques Pt.2: Drums
Despite the preponderance of exceptional drum samples and loops on the market, for certain genres of music (notably country and rock) there is no substitute for a great session drummer playing on a w…
[Feature Article] Mixing Guitar and Vocals - EQ and Compression Techniques for Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
As an engineer/producer, one of my biggest early challenges was getting my mixes to sound as polished and balanced as the mixes of songs on my favorite albums. Living in Nashville, I knew the problem…
[Feature Article] Introduction - Using a Mixer: Rehearsals
Before you’re ready for arenas and stadiums, where you’d no doubt call on the services of an experienced sound technician, you need to rehearse. And as long as you’re rehearsing you might as well do …
[Feature Article] Software Comparison - Time Stretching & Pitch Shifting: Comparison Part I
OK, here we go! This is the first of our comparative software tests on time-stretching and pitch-shifting. The competitors: 26 Mac and PC programs, from big sequencers to small applications, plug-ins…
[Feature Article] Understanding Reverb - Craig Anderton: Understanding Reverb
When we hear sounds in the “real world,” they are in an acoustic space. For example, suppose you are playing acoustic guitar in your living room. You hear not only the guitar’s sound, but because the…